DMX: Bad pet owner

Now, everyone knows that DMX is one troubled guy, but reading this kind of stuff makes me think that maybe just as sex offenders aren’t allowed near children, this guy shouldn’t be allowed near dogs, let alone permitted to own one, ever.
The recording artist has been under investigation since police found three dead dogs and 12 undernourished pit bulls at his home near Cave Creek, Ariz., last month.

Of course, he blames his caretaker, but man, who the heck are you hiring, and was he also in charge of your pets in New Jersey? Because …

Lawyer Ray Koski said the rapper faced 13 animal cruelty charges in New Jersey in 1999.

In the New Jersey case, police found 13 pit bull puppies who were deformed by confinement and had to be cut out of their cages, said Koski, a former special prosecutor who represented the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which brought the charges.